Document:Treaty of Serebursk

Article 1

1. All insurrectionists shall surrender themselves and their military equipment. Those who do so within one month will be granted amnesty and returned the full rights and privileges of citizenship. The armed forces shall be empowered to subdue those who refuse to surrender.
2. Insurrectionist duchies shall swear an oath of loyalty. Such an oath shall forbid them from seceding without prior permission. Upon the swearing of such an oath, any territories of the duchy under military occupation and any military equipment seized by the armed forces shall be returned. The armed forces shall participate in no wilful destruction of military or civil property while occupying any territories until such an oath is sworn.
3. The armed forces shall be allowed to maintain a presence in insurrectionist territories as long as is necessary to subdue remaining insurrectionist factions. The restored governments of the duchies shall render whatever aid is necessary to subdue such factions. Military forces shall withdraw once all such factions have been subdued.

Article 3

1. The Kingdom of Novmir shall instead be styled the United Empire of Novmir and the King of Novmir shall instead be styled the Emperor of Novmir. The flags, coat of arms and other symbols of the Empire and the Emperor shall be unique and separate from those of the House Pembroke-Havelock.
2. The Emperor may nominate as many heirs to the throne as he wishes from among the members of the House of Pembroke-Havelock. No heir, however, shall be considered legitimate without the subsequent approval of the Ducal Council. Only the Emperor may dismiss heirs once legitimized. Upon the death or abdication of the Emperor, his eldest legitimate heir shall be crowned as Emperor. Should the Emperor have no legitimate heirs at the time of his death or abdication, then the Ducal Council shall elect a new Emperor from among the members of the House Pembroke-Havelock.
3. The Emperor may nominate ministers of the Cabinet and an Archduke from among the members of the Ducal Council. No such nomination, however, shall result in an official appointment without the subsequent approval of the Ducal Council. Only the Emperor may dismiss ministers of the Cabinet once appointed.
4. The Emperor shall alter no taxes, budget or laws without the consent of the Imperial Assembly. He, however, may veto proposals of the Imperial Assembly, negotiate treaties with foreign powers and propose declarations of war and shall act as commander in-chief of the armed forces.

Article 4

1. The Ducal Council shall remain as the upper house of an Imperial Assembly.
2. Every duchy shall be entitled to a single representative on the Ducal Council. The method of selecting such representatives and their term of office shall be decided by their respective duchies.
3. No proposal to alter the taxes, budget or laws, to enter into any treaty with a foreign power or to declare war may come into effect without the approval of the Ducal Council.

Article 5

1. A Popular Council shall be established as the lower house of an Imperial Assembly. It shall consist of two-hundred and fifty-one seats.
2. Within two years the Imperial Government shall take a census of all persons of at least twenty-one years of age who have been resident within the Kingdom of Novmir for at least ten years. All such persons shall be considered qualified to vote in elections of the Popular Council. Twenty electoral districts of ten shall be established, each of which shall contain as equal a number of such qualified persons as possible. A new census shall be performed every ten years and electoral districts shall be altered as necessary to ensure they continue to comply to these stipulations.
3. Within six months of the creation of electoral districts the first election of the Popular Council shall be held. Those qualified to vote shall vote for a participating political party of their choice. Within each electoral district the total votes for each party shall be tallied, and each party which has won at least one tenth of the total district votes will be awarded a share of the district seats as equal as possible to its share of the total district vote. Once all seats in electoral districts have been awarded, the total national vote for each party shall be tallied and the remaining fifty-one seats shall be awarded as necessary to ensure that the total share of seats of each party which has won at least one twentieth of the total national vote is as close as possible to its share of the total national vote. The same methodology shall be used in all subsequent elections of the Popular Council.
4. The Emperor may propose a dissolution of the standing Popular Council and the Ducal Council may approve any such proposal. If such approval is given, new elections shall be held within two months. If five years have passed since the most recent election of the Popular Council, it shall be dissolved and a new election held.
5. No proposal to alter the taxes, budget or laws may be enacted without the approval of the Popular Council.

Article 6

1. A common seat of government for the Empire shall be established by the cession of no more than two-hundred and fifty square kilometers of land from the duchies to the Imperial Government. The particulars of the land to be ceded and the compensation to be offered by the Imperial Government to the duchies affected shall be negotiated and decided within two years. The land ceded shall be administered directly by the Empire as an imperial district.

Article 7

1. Each duchy of the Empire shall in matters exclusive to its territory be guaranteed sole sovereignty to determine its government, internal political divisions and the government of such divisions, to establish local taxes and a budget, to regulate labor and commerce, to establish and enforce laws for the public order and morality, to establish and maintain institutions for the public welfare, to create and maintain public infrastructure, to create and maintain a militia subordinate to the national armed forces, to regulate the use of the land and waters, to collect and maintain public statistics and to adopt flags, arms and other public symbols.
2. The territorial borders of no duchy may be altered by the Imperial Government without its consent.
3. No duchy may secede from the Empire without the consent of the Imperial Government.

Article 8

1. All provisions of this treaty shall be effective immediately upon the passage of this treaty, which shall require its ratification by the government of his majesty Fredrick Maximilians and by the government of each insurrectionist duchy.